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As 2022 comes to a close, SPE would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the SPE PLastics INsight a look at some of the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.
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Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Rice University
From April 13: Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide.
What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide sorbent for industry.
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Enzyme breaks down PET plastic in record time
Phys.org
From May 25: Plastic bottles, punnets, wrap — lightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not recycled. Scientists at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that degrades PET in record time. The enzyme PHL7, which the researchers found in a compost heap in Leipzig, could make biological PET recycling possible much faster than previously thought.
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Medical plastics market projected to grow 7.8% over next 10 years
Plastics Today
From June 29: A growing population of elderly patients using an array of remote diagnostics and other digital medical devices is driving demand for plastics in medical applications, which jumped 6.3% between 2017 and 2021, according to a new report.
The trend will continue through 2032, with a projected 7.8% CAGR, sending global revenue for the sector to $106.23 billion by that year, according to research by Future Market Insights of Newark, DE.
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Turning plastics back into petrochemicals
Technology Networks
From Jan. 26: Despite efforts to promote recycling and reuse of plastic materials, the plastic problem continues to be a global problem. West Virginia University engineers hope to debottleneck the remaining challenges for recycling of single-use plastic packaging by upcycling them into petrochemicals.
“Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags annually, that’s about 307 bags per person,” said Yuxin Wang, research assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering and principal investigator of the project.
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Scientists use 'green' solvent and natural pigment to produce bioplastic
AAAS via EurekAlert!
From Feb. 23: Scientists based in Brazil and Portugal have developed an environmentally sustainable process to produce biodegradable plastic using pigment extracted from yeast by “green” solvents. In an article published in the journal Green Chemistry, they show that this biodegradable plastic could in future be used in smart packaging with antioxidant and anti-microbial properties.
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Plastics sector jumps from eighth to sixth largest US industry
Plastics Today
From Sept. 21: Accounting for nearly one million jobs and $468 billion in shipments in 2021, the US plastics industry moved up in ranking from the eighth to sixth largest industry in the country, according to the Plastics Industry Association. If you include captive plastic products — such as automotive assembly or milk bottling plants — and the associated supply chain, the size of the industry balloons to just over $600 billion.
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Plastics of the future will live many past lives, thanks to chemical recycling
CU Boulder Today
From Oct. 5: One day in the not-too-distant future, the plastics in our satellites, cars and electronics may all be living their second, 25th or 250th lives.
New research from CU Boulder, published in Nature Chemistry, details how a class of durable plastics widely used in the aerospace and microelectronics industries can be chemically broken down into their most basic building blocks and then formed once again into the same material.
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The changing nature of injection molding
Plastics Technology
From Jan. 19: A year ago, as the first images of healthcare workers being vaccinated against COVID-19 were broadcast, and well before we all began an unwanted lesson in the Greek alphabet, I would not have thought my predictions post for 2022 would mention the “C” word through anything but a retrospective view.
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New PET-like plastic made directly from waste biomass
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne via ScienceDaily
From July 6: Scientists have developed a new, PET-like plastic that is easily made from the non-edible parts of plants. The plastic is tough, heat-resistant, and a good barrier to gases like oxygen, making it a promising candidate for food packaging. Due to its structure, the new plastic can also be chemically recycled and degrade back to harmless sugars in the environment.
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